SAT vocabulary

Declaim

to utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience

Example

"The orator began to declaim against the injustices of the new law, his voice ringing with conviction."

Etymology

From Latin declamare, from de- 'down, thoroughly' + clamare 'to shout'.

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